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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 14:50:41 GMT -7
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft ("German-American Friendship"), or D.A.F., was an influential German electropunk/Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drums, percussion, electronic instruments), Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke (electronic instruments), Michael Kemner (bass-guitar) and Wolfgang Spelmans (guitar). Kurt Dahlke was replaced by Chrislo Haas (electronic instruments, bass guitar, saxophone) in 1979. Since 1981, the band has consisted of Delgado-López and Görl. Gabi Delgado-Lopez died on 22 March 2020 aged 61.
In interviews they claimed not to target anything or anyone specific while writing lyrics to be taken as a parody of words and phrases floating around in the public media. "Sato-Sato" and "Der Mussolini" are both examples of songs written around Delgado-López's fascination with the sound of a particular word. A few months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, D.A.F. released "The Sheriff (An Anti-American Song)".
The album Alles ist gut (all is good) received the German "Schallplattenpreis" award by the "Deutsche Phono-Akademie" (The German Phono-Academy), an association of the German recording industry.
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 14:57:43 GMT -7
Dorothea RaukesDeutsche Wertarbeit (Soloprojekt), Soloprojekt von Dorothea Raukes.
For way more than a decade, the sole album attributed to Deutsche Wertarbeit – which translates from the German as “German Craftsmanship” or “German quality” – was almost impossible to find.
And even when it was finally reissued on CD in the mid Nineties it went past most people.
Released in 1981 and locating itself somewhere between Kraftwerk's minimalism and astral-flight New Age music, the album appeared on the Sky Records label and promptly disappeared.
As did the person who created it.
Deutsche Wertarbeit was the nom-de-disque – or pseudonym, which is the same in German – of Dorothea Raukes, the singer/keyboard player in the Dusseldorf-based band Streetmark.
The band had formed in the late Sixties and although initially playing covers they became increasingly more prog-rock with their originals.
They had a revolving door membership around Raukes and guitarist Thomas Schreiber and recorded four albums between '76 and '80 for the now defunct Sky label, which released albums by the likes of Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Michael Rother and the two acclaimed albums by Cluster (Moebius and Roedelius) with Brian Eno.
Streetmark were in excellent company and their debut Nordland was produced by Connie Plank.
By their final album Sky Racer with Raukes their only original member, she had steered the group more towards pop – perhaps as a result of the success of their '79 single Lovers (in English, and not much cop in fact and elevated only by Raukes' organ riffery and solo).
You can hear it here.
Even in that solo you can hear where Raukes had come from, it has allusions to Bach and Baroque music (albeit prog-rocked into pop) and since the age of five when she started studying piano she had been destined for the classical stage.
But as with so many similar players in both Germany and Britain from the mid Sixties onward (think Procol Harum), she found the idea of combining her classical interests with a more progressive and innovative kind of pop music.
Hence her role in founding Streetmark.
originalBut her Deutsche Wertarbeit album – her only solo album – was something different.
Adopting some of the elements of Kraftwerk's repeated figures (but with a more quirky twist, like the Penguin Cafe Orchestra gone electronica-lite) and using vocoder on the opening piece Guten Abend Leute, Raukes staked out a little territory of her own which brought in more pop than prog and also had a warmth which many found lacking in some Krautrock of the period.
The music on the album seems unfairly represented by the austerity of the album's cover.
In pieces like Unter Tag and Intercity Rheingold she sounds more influenced by Terry Riley, minimalism and Jean Michel Jarre than the often grim sonic landscapes of her peers, and she anticipated some of the more popular soundtrack works by the likes of Philip Glass in the rolling and pulsating melodic lines of her synths.
There's a lightness of spirit about these instrumentals which reaches its apotheosis in the final, 10 minute piece Der Grosse Atem.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Wertarbeit
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 14:59:57 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 15:04:29 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 15:06:10 GMT -7
Einstürzende Neubauten ("Collapsing New Buildings") is a German experimental music group, originally formed in West Berlin in 1980. The group is currently composed of founder members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals; guitar; keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments; percussion; vocals), long-time contributor Alexander Hacke (bass; vocals), plus Jochen Arbeit (guitar; vocals), and Rudolf Moser (custom-built instruments; percussion; vocals), who both joined the line-up in 1997.
One of their trademarks is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Their early albums were unremittingly harsh, with Bargeld's vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. Subsequent recordings found the group's sound growing somewhat more conventional, yet still containing many unorthodox elements.
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 15:09:06 GMT -7
Highest quality rip that I can provide. (Ripped from a Polish fan's homemade DVD)
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese having been the only continuous member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the group was its mid-'70s trio of Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. In 1979, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann. Since Froese's death in 2015, the group has been under the leadership of Thorsten Quaeschning (Froese's chosen successor and the current longest-serving band member, having joined in 2005). He is joined by violinist Hoshiko Yamane who joined in 2011, Ulrich Schnauss who joined in 2014 and Paul Frick[3] who joined 9 June 2020.
Tangerine Dream are considered a pioneering act in electronica. Their work with the electronic music Ohr label produced albums that had a pivotal role in the development of the German musical scene known as kosmische ("cosmic"). Their "Virgin Years", so called because of their association with Virgin Records, produced albums that further explored synthesizers and sequencers, including the UK top 20 albums Phaedra (1974) and Rubycon (1975). The group also had a successful career composing film soundtracks, creating over 60 scores, which include those for the films Sorcerer, Thief, The Soldier, Risky Business, Flashpoint, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend, Three O'Clock High, Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile.
From the late 1990s into the 2000s, Tangerine Dream continued to explore other styles of instrumental music as well as electronica. Their recorded output has been prolific, including over one hundred albums. Among other scoring projects, they helped create the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Their mid-1970s work has been profoundly influential in the development of electronic music styles such as new-age (although the band themselves disliked the term) and electronic dance music.
Their most recent album of all-new music, Quantum Gate, was released on 29 September 2017. In December 2019, the band released Recurring Dreams, a compilation of new recordings of some of the band's classic compositions.
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 15:12:00 GMT -7
Amon Düül II (or Amon Düül 2, Pronunciation = Amon Düül) is a German rock band. The group is generally considered to be one of the pioneers of the West German krautrock scene. Their 1970 album Yeti was described by British magazine The Wire as "one of the cornerstones of [...] the entire Krautrock movement."
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:15:41 GMT -7
Alphaville is a German synth-pop band which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were lead singer Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum; born 1954), Bernhard Lloyd (real name Bernhard Gössling; born 1960), and Frank Mertens (real name Frank Sorgatz; born 1961). They achieved chart success with the singles "Forever Young", "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", "The Jet Set" and "Dance with Me".
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:17:53 GMT -7
SandraSandra Ann Lauer (born 18 May 1962), commonly known under her stage name Sandra and Sandra Cretu (German pronunciation: [ˈzandʁa]), is a German pop singer who enjoyed a mainstream popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s with a string of European hit singles, produced by her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu, most notably "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" (1985), "In the Heat of the Night" (1985), "Everlasting Love" (1987), "Secret Land" (1988), "Hiroshima" (1990) and "Don't Be Aggressive" (1992). Her albums Into a Secret Land (1988) and Close to Seven (1992) have won Sandra high critical acclaim. Prior to embarking on a solo career, Sandra was the lead singer of the all-female disco trio Arabesque, which had a massive following in Japan and the Soviet Union. Also, between 1990 and 2001, she provided vocals on album releases of the very successful musical project Enigma, which had top 10 hits in North America and the United Kingdom. A cult star with a devoted fan base, Sandra remains one of the most popular singers of the 1980s in Continental Europe. During the height of her popularity, she even managed to outsell Madonna in a number of countries around the world. With sales in excess of 33 million records worldwide, Sandra has established her position as the most successful German disco/pop female vocalist.
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:23:37 GMT -7
Jennifer RushJennifer Rush (born Heidi Stern; September 28, 1960) is an American singer and songwriter. Rush achieved success during the mid-1980s around the world, with the release of a number of singles and albums including the million-selling single "The Power of Love", which she co-wrote and released in 1984. She saw her greatest success in Europe, particularly Germany.
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:29:14 GMT -7
Modern Talking was a German duo consisting of arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen and singer Thomas Anders, with the participation of Luis Rodríguez in the production. They have been referred to as Germany's most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles, reaching the top five in many countries. Their most popular singles are "You're My Heart, You're My Soul", "You Can Win If You Want", "Cheri, Cheri Lady", "Brother Louie", "Atlantis Is Calling (S.O.S. for Love)" and "Geronimo's Cadillac".
Modern Talking worked together from 1983 to 1987, then the band split up. In 1998, they reunited and made a successful comeback, recording and releasing music from 1998 to 2003. The duo released singles which again entered the top ten in Germany and abroad, one of which was the re-recorded version of "You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98". After the duo's second and final break-up in 2003, their global sales had reached 120 million singles and albums combined.
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:33:52 GMT -7
Die Toten Hosen (literally "The Dead Trousers", figuratively "dead boring" referring to "erectile dysfunction") is a German punk rock band from Düsseldorf. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Toten_Hosen )
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:38:01 GMT -7
The Scorpions are a German heavy metal band formed in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker. Since the band's inception, its musical style has ranged from hard rock, heavy metal, and glam metal. The lineup from 1978 to 1992 was the most successful incarnation of the group, and included Klaus Meine (vocals), Rudolf Schenker (rhythm guitar), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass), and Herman Rarebell (drums). The band's only continuous member has been Schenker, although Meine has appeared on all of Scorpions' studio albums, while Jabs has been a consistent member since 1978, and bassist Paweł Mąciwoda and drummer Mikkey Dee have been in the band since 2003 and 2016 respectively.
During the mid-1970s, with guitarist Uli Jon Roth part of the line-up, the music of the Scorpions was defined as hard rock. After the departure of Roth in 1978 and short-lived reunion with Schenker's brother Michael, Matthias Jabs joined and, following the guidance of producer Dieter Dierks, the Scorpions changed their sound towards hard rock/heavy metal, mixed with rock power ballads. Throughout the 1980s the group received positive reviews and critical acclaim from music critics, and experienced commercial success with the albums Animal Magnetism (1980), Blackout (1982), Love at First Sting (1984), the live recording World Wide Live (1985), Savage Amusement (1988) and Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads (1989), which is their best-selling compilation album.
Scorpions' eleventh studio album Crazy World (1990) was also well-received, and included the song "Wind of Change", a symbolic anthem of the political changes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is one of the best-selling singles in the world with over fourteen million copies sold. Scorpions have sold over 110 million records in total. They have released 18 studio albums, 27 compilation albums and 74 singles. Six of their singles have reached number one on the charts in different countries. Their albums, singles, compilations and video releases have reached gold, platinum and multi-platinum status 200 times in different countries.
Rolling Stone described the Scorpions as "the heroes of heavy metal", and MTV called them "Ambassadors of Rock". The band has influenced a number of acts such as Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard,[18] Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Skid Row, Cinderella, Doro, Helloween, Hanoi Rocks, and Yngwie Malmsteen. The Scorpions were ranked number 46 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, with "Rock You Like a Hurricane" at number 18 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. "Still Loving You" ranked 22nd place among the greatest ballads. They have received prestigious awards such as three World Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Rock wall, and a presence in the permanent exhibition of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2015, the group celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:42:45 GMT -7
Dissidenten are a German rock band known for their collaborations with Middle Eastern, African and Indian musicians. In a 1988 article for The New York Times, music critic Stephen Holden acknowledged the band as being among the leaders of what he termed "the 'world beat' movement ... in which ethnic styles are contemporized with electronic dance rhythms". ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissidenten )
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Post by pieter on May 1, 2021 14:47:03 GMT -7
Udo Lindenberg (born 17 May 1946) is a German singer, drummer, and composer.
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